Saturday, 5 September 2009

Round up as boring weekend commences

"Diving is something the England lads don't do. Sometimes we're too honest. Even in the Premier League, we see the English lads get a bit of contact and try to stay on their feet and score from the chance. The foreign mentality coming in is any little clip, you go tumbling over because of the speed of the game nowadays."

"When you see the opponents' team-sheet you know who you've got to be careful with but there's nobody in this England squad like that."

Owen, Gerrard, Rooney, Lampard, Cole (times two), just to name but a few, these chaps have never dived routinely have they? JT also claims that DidierDrogba has stopped all his gamesmanship, I'll believe that when I see it last for more than two weeks, or has he simpy stopped diving and converted it into a JT like barracking of officials? How noble. Not all the money in the world could buy JT a brain, how very unfortunate.

HAHAHAHA,WTF,i'm afraid england have the most consistent divers at the moment ,bar ronaldo,and this comes from a overrated player who has to let his defending partner do all the work coz he is shit!!!!.

Chavski have always been underhand in the transfer market,look at the prices there paid,the secret meetings and incentives to agents and parents of players,its time that FIFA did something about them.

We have a good crop of youngsters and the future looks good but there for a few yrs time,so the future looks good.

I got a reply from the BBC after that Dominic guy was verbally attacked.

Thanks for your e-mail.

I understand that you were unhappy with the way that Alan Green dealt with a caller to 6-0-6 on BBC Radio 5 Live on Saturday 29th August after the Manchester United v Arsenal match.

The caller was comparing Eduardo's alleged 'dive' during the Celtic game earlier in the week to the challenge that led to Wayne Rooney's penalty. The resulting exchange between Alan and the listener was indeed fiery and reflected Alan's passion for the game. Alan is a well respected commentator who is popular with our listeners and is known for his forthright opinions.

I am sorry that you felt that on this occasion Alan's manner was abrasive.

Thats a great clip of Gerrard diving. John Terry's comments are embarrassing.

However, we might want to be a little careful about the 'tapping-up' saga. I think you are correct to say that we have never been found to have broken any rules, but several clubs have complained about Arsenal's behaviour. In particular, PSG were extremely unhappy about the way we signed Anelka.

If the question is 'have Arsenal broken any rules?' then the answer may well be no. But some of the rules were put in place because of what we were up to and if you are looking at the way we bring 15 and 16 year old players in to the club before they have signed professional terms, then we are on much stickier ground.

We cannot paint ourselves as being whiter than white. If Jack Wilshere was turning out for Manure because Fergie had nicked him as a 16 year old, then we would be furious about it.

other clubs may be in the dock soon, manu in particular according to the above article,

certainly all clubs are going to have to make sure they are very careful in poaching foriegn talent in the future,

it's obviously a tricky area though, as it would be absurd if no young player could change clubs when under 16, any change to the rules that was poorly constructed could effectively see youth players become slaves if they became unable to move no matter of the circumstances,

clearly there is unethical and ethical poaching, but the divide is not that clear at times

More importantly I've just seen that our injury curse has returned...Djourou out for 6 months. That means we are one injury from having to play Senderos or Silvestre. We will not win the title with them.

Given our injury problems why did Arsene not buy some back up?? This was always going to happen.